Expression of foreign proteins in Trypanosoma congolense

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-53

  Downey, Nicholas ^a   Donelson, John E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine protease; Expression vector; Green fluorescence protein; Luciferase; PARP; Procyclin; Trypanosoma congolense

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN KINASE; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENETIC VECTORS; GENTAMICINS; KANAMYCIN KINASE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 0032730958     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00136-X     Document Type: Article

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